Title Managing Director, Head Company ABB Technology Ventures Bio Girish Nadkarni is President of ABB Technology Ventures (ATV), the corporate venture arm of ABB. Girish started ATV in 2009 and it has invested over $150 MM in 17 investments across the globe. Prior to starting ATV, Girish ran the global automotive business for ABB’s Robotics Division. Girish started his career as an attorney on Wall Street focusing on international banking and M&A. His business career spans Prudential where he was responsible for creating the innovative Pru-Shelf financing facility which currently has 750 customers with a portfolio value of $74 Billion, GE Capital and GE where he worked for Jack Welch on strategy and business development, and United Healthcare as chief operations officer. He has also had a stint as an entrepreneur when he founded and ran vSimplify, a VC funded startup which was a pioneer in the cloud based (ASP) business services area. Girish earned his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Bombay where he was a gold medalist, his masters of law degree from the University of Virginia which he attended as a DuPont Fellow, and an MBA from Harvard where he was designated a Baker Scholar. Girish is on the boards of companies in the US, China, Israel and UK. He is also on the Investment Committee of Venture Incubator Partners, a CHF 100MM venture fund sponsored by major Swiss companies to invest in early stage Swiss companies. Girish is considered a thought leader in the area of corporate venture investing and is a frequent speaker at venture capital and industry conferences around the world. Girish was listed on the Global Corporate Venturing Power List 100 in 2012 and 2013.